Songoftheday 2/14/14 - All alone nothin' seemed to matter so alone doesn't get much better, can't explain somethin' that you're feelin' for the very first time...

Chicago - "Along Comes A Woman"
from the album Chicago 17 (1984)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #14 (two weeks)
Weeks in the Top-40: 10

Today's Song of the Day is by the jazz-rock fusion group turned soft-rock hitmakers Chicago, whose 17th album had already spun off a couple of top-3 hits with "Hard Habit To Break" and "You're The Inspiration" along with the top-20 lead single "Stay The Night". For their fourth release, "Along Comes A Woman", producer David Foster "punched up" the musical backdrop to seem more electronic and new wave-like than the album version, and the high-concept video found lead singer and co-writer Peter Cetera doing his best Indiana Jones impression throughout a series of scenes meant to make a splash on MTV...

"Along Comes A Woman" became the fourth top-20 hit from Chicago 17 in April of 1985, while climbing to #25 on the adult-contemporary (or "easy listening") radio chart. It did the best on mainstream rock stations, peaking at #10 on that format chart in In England, the single just nicked the chart at #96. It would be Cetera's final single with the band, leaving for a solo career after their tour.

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Here's the band on their tour behind the album in 1984...

...and again from their post-Cetera days in 1989 at Budokan...

Up tomorrow: The Material Girl goes nuts.